Process Integration, Volume 7 (Hardcover)

Description:

With growing global competition, the process industries must spare no effort in insuring continuous process improvement in terms of

• Increasing profitability;

• Conservation of resources and

• Prevention of pollution

The question is how can engineers achieve these goals for a given process with numerous units and streams? Until recently conventional approaches to process design and operation put emphasis only on individual units and parts of the process. A more powerful integrated approach was lacking. The new field of Process Integration looks towards the processing plant as a whole in its attempt to find solutions and improvements. Research over the past two decades has resulted in many techniques that allow engineers to better understand complex facilities and significantly enhance their performance. This textbook presents a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the concepts, tools and applications of Process Integration. Emphasis is given to systematic ways of analyzing process performance. Graphical, algebraic and mathematical procedures are presented in detail. In addition to covering the fundamentals of the subject, the book also includes numerous case studies and examples that illustrate how Process Integration is solving actual industrial problems.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Process Integration

Chapter 2: Overall Mass Targeting

Chapter 3: Graphical Techniques for Direct-Recycle Strategies

Chapter 4: Synthesis of Mass Exchange Networks: A Graphical Approach

Chapter 5: Visualization Techniques for the Development of Detailed Mass-Integration Strategies

Chapter 6: Algebraic Approach to Targeting Direct Recycle

Chapter 7: An Algebraic Approach to the Targeting opf Mass Exchange Networks

Chapter 8: Recycle Strategies Using Property Integration

Chapter 9: Heat Integration

Chapter 10: Combined Heat and Power Integration

Chapter 11: Overview of Optimization

Chapter 12: Mathematical Approach to Direct Recycle

Chapter 13: Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Mass and Heat Exchange

Chapter 14: Mathematical Techiques for Mass-Integration

Chapter 15: Putting it Together: Initiatives and Applications